of brooklyn



STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEO. A. COX, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

FORMER FOR BONNET-FRONTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26,836, datedJanuarLlnlBQLBiSlLed April 23, 1861, N0. 1,175.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. Cox, of Brooklyn, in Kings county and the`State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a new andImproved Machine for Forming the Fronts of Bonnet-Frames of Wire andNet; and I do declare the following to be a full and exact descriptionof the same, reference being had to the accompany ing drawings and tothe letters of reference marked thereon.

In the drawings, like parts of the invention are indicated by the sameletters.

Figure I is a view of my improved machine, showing a bonnet front formedof wire and net, when completed; Fig. II, a view of the wire and netfront when oompleted; Fig. III, a view of that portion of the machineknown as the former.

The wire and net fronts of bonnet frames have heretofore been made inconnection with the frame itself, by using buckram as a pattern to whichthe wire necessary to form the frame work has been basted. After thishas been done, the net or material for covering' is sewed over the wireforming the frame work. The wire and net front in connection with theframe being thus formed is ripped from the buckram pattern and is readyfor use.

The machine, I have perfected and found to operate successfully,affording the advantage of a saving of time and material and reducingthe cost of the article produced at least twenty-five per cent.,consists of the following parts: a former A, made of copper or othermetal, and bent into the desired shape; a cross-piece of metal Bextending across the interior of the same and provided with two openingsC, C, serves to support the former A upon a frame-work of iron or anymaterial. This framework for supporting the former A consists of across-piece D,

upon which by means of the metallic crosspiece B provided with theopenings C, C, the former A rests. This cross-piece D is attacheddirectly to a block E, the axis of which plays in a slotted upright F,so that by means of screw G, the former A can be raised or lowered andmay be adj usted longitudinally by moving it along the slot F- while itsposition in respect to the party working may be readily changed byrotating the former A on the axis of the block F the set screw I-I beingemployed to retain it in any desired position.

The machine being thus constructed, my mode of forming the wire and netfront of a bonnet frame is as follows: It will be observed that theformer A, is provided at its upper and lower edges with a grooved rim(I, I) and that certain port-ions of the same, have been cut away asindicated by the letters (i, i, z', z'). These grooved rims I, I formgutters for the reception of the wire to form, in conjunction withcross-pieces of wire extending from z' to t', and bent around the mainportion of wire by pincers the framework of the front, the wire beingheld to the former A by means of clamps O, O. After the framework hasbeen formed, the net or material used for covering, is sewed upon it andthe front is finished and ready for use.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is- The use or employment of the former A, incombination with the frame composed of the parts D, E and F, whenarranged and operated in the manner described and `for the purposespecified.

GEO. A. COX.

Witnesses HENRY G. FoGGAN, A. SIDNEY DoANE.

